|1981||Ph.D.||Biological Sciences||Stanford University|
|1974||B.A.||with distinction in Biology||Swarthmore College|
Our goal is to understand the genetic basis of ecologically important plant traits and use this understanding to predict plant responses to environmental change. For example, how will the timing of seasonal events such as flowering respond to rapid warming? Can plant populations adapt fast enough to keep up with climate change? Answering such questions is important for managing crop and forest yields, weeds, and rare plant populations on a rapidly changing planet.
Plant ecological genomics and evolutionary ecology; mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity, local adaptation and response to environmental change
2010 - American Academy of Arts and Sciences
2008 - National Academy of Sciences
2007 - Alexander von Humboldt Research Award
2003 - Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
1992-1993 NSF Midcareer Fellowship in Environmental Biology
1991-1996 NSF Faculty Award for Women in Science and Engineering
Department and Center Affiliations
Center for Population Biology
Past President, Society for the Study of Evolution and American Society of Naturalists
CBS Grad Group Affiliations
Specialties / Focus
- Systematics and Evolutionary Biology
- Environmental and Integrative Biology
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Fournier-Level, A. Korte, M.D. Cooper, M. Nordborg, J. Schmitt and A.M. Wilczek. 2011. A map of local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science 334: 86-89.
Huang, X., J. Schmitt, L. Dorn, C. Griffith, S. Effgen, S. Takao, M. Koornneef, K. Donohue. 2010. The earliest stages of adaptation in an experimental plant population: strong selection on QTLs for seed dormancy. Molecular Ecology 19: 1335-1351
Wilzcek, A.M., L.T. Burghardt, A.R. Cobb, M.D. Cooper, S.M.Welch, J. Schmitt. 2010 Genetic and physiological bases for phenological responses to current and predicted climates. Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B., 365:3129-3147.
Wilczek, J. Roe, M. Knapp, M. Cooper, C.M. Lopez-Gallego, L. Martin, C. Muir, S. Sim, A. Walker, J. Anderson, J.F. Egan, B. Moyers, R. Petipas, A. Giakountis, E. Charbit, G. Coupland, S.M. Welch, and J. Schmitt. 2009. Effects of genetic perturbation on seasonal life history plasticity. Science, 323:930-934.
Stinchcombe, J.R., C.Weinig, K.D. Heath, M.T. Brock, and J. Schmitt. 2009. Polymorphic genes of major effect: consequences for variation, selection, and evolution. Genetics 182: 911-922.
Fournier-Level, A., A.M.Wilczek, M.D. Cooper, J.L. Roe, J. Anderson, D. Eaton, B.T. Moyers, R.H. Petipas, R.N.Schaeffer, B. Pieper, M.Reymond, M. Koornneef, S.M. Welch, D.L.Remington, and J. Schmitt. 2013. Paths to selection on life history loci in different natural environments across the native range of Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecular Ecology doi: 10.1111/mec.12285